Clean font with camera lens, hands on approach also reflects white glove handling, sepia tone of photo reflects restoring vintage photos, and graduated tone of cat and dog reflect their images being restored on vintage photo... let me know if it reflects 'too much'. :-)
thanks for such great "customer" philosophy. I am not a fan of the shade of green you are using at the moment. How abut we try something different all together? How about something that resembles a deep yet somewhat light purple? There is a shade of purple I associate with "richness as in royalty". I think others do as well as. It's like the shade of the bag that Royal Crown Whisky comes in. (Just checked their website and they can't produce it at the website, hmm wonder if they use pantone?) It is deep but I'm not certain how much detail would be preserved if we go darker with font color/ The outline of the animals would need to change too to blend and they are already being swallowed some into the background and I think maybe the shift in color all together might make it worse. That is unless you can introduce an ambiance of light behind the outlines without major impact to the overall reflection in a glass aspect. That's about all I can say, I hope it is enough to spark some of the creative genius in you. :-)
Hmm, I wanted to post again...I assume you all can see each others designs and thought perhaps I should make it a point to mention that I have asked Lily to work with her reflective images as well. Image reflection in a lens is muted and yet if good light available,visible sometimes with distortion and yet the image is identifiable. I am trying to get that affect and yet the images, of course be visible. heck maybe it's not possible, wanting reality in a two dimensional image but again you are the artist... I would appreciate your seeing what you might do. (I'll be going back to comments on Lily's and asking her to check this one).
Doesn't work to well huh? Black for company name, leaving the purple color for the animals and see if a reflective hue of sorts can be added. Take a look at the Apple's Aperture icon and you will get some idea of the "look" i am wanting. Also images in a camera lens will be somewhat distorted. Let me see if I can find a reflection in one of my photographs and post it on my blog for you to see.
#68 While printing would be a consideration, it is appears busier than most business logos. I'm just mulling this one over..to see if it grows on me. and I think having it printed in an advertisement be really expensive. On second thought, it can't work if I want to be practical. Though your efforts are really appreciated. I am disappointed because I like it and yet I can't "afford" it.
ah. I thought you were hoping to achieve the Apple aperture icon look so that's what I worked on. do you want me to remove some of the reflective colors?
valid question....If you want to try it is up to you. I need to think of cost in terms of printing. I like the reflective aspect and do appreciate the work, practically I simply am unable to rationalize the printing expense for a multi colored logo.
1) number of colors involved with your submission? #53 green,black #78 CMYK (cyan,magenta,yellow,black), a 4/c process
2) If your file wins, will I receive design as an .eps file? (and 3 jpegs as logotournament.com states) As Photoshop user this file type being available here was critical to my decision to open this tournament. yes
3) Can the design be reduced to a thumb nail size and essential parts of design remain visible/legible ? (company name and design concept understood by glance) yes. however, many companies use a symbol such as this lens as an attention-getter logo in combination with the name of the company on the side or below.
4) When using design in mediums of letterhead, email, facsimile, newspaper (this would need to be cmyk with 300 dpi) will the integrity of the design remain in tact? absolutely